Rustavi Children's Railway
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The children's railway Rustavi ( Russian детской железной дороги Рустави ) was an approximately five-kilometer-long, narrow-gauge children's railway near the Georgian city of Rustavi . The railway was in operation from July 19, 1987 until the end of the 1990s.
history
The children's railway lay in the swampy floodplain of the Kura River between the old and new parts of Rustavi. The locomotive depot was in a tunnel under a hill. The Children's Railway was much later than most Soviet pioneer railroads opened on 19 July 1987, was well as other pioneer railroads of Young Pioneers in school- age under the supervision operated by adults.
The initiator of the construction of the Children's Railway was Nodari Pozchischiwili (Нодари Поцхишвили), deputy director of the rail transport of iron and steel mill in Rustavi. Many years earlier, on November 6, 1967, in the same position in the steelworks in the Ukrainian city of Alchevsk, he had founded the Kommunarsk Children 's Railway . In 1984 Pozchishivili moved to Georgia and stayed true to his dream. He suggested building a children's railway in Rustavi. In 1985 the idea was supported by the first secretary of the city committee of the CPSU , Shiuli Sharpava, and planning of the route began. On February 1, 1986, the foundation stone was laid on the site of the future children's railway.
A test run of the first train took place in February 1987, but the line was not opened to passengers until July 1987. Little is known about the further fate of the children's railway because it was not part of the state railway system and was therefore not included in the official statistics. It had not been in operation since the late 1990s at the latest. The tracks are partially dismantled, but some rail vehicles are still there.
From October 5, 2002, the Georgian-American Club planned to create a large cultural and entertainment complex Park Iowa (Парк Айова) in the area of the children's railway and to renovate it. From the beginning of 2003 the station building and the rail vehicles were repainted, the park area cleaned and the landscaping started. The further implementation of the project has stalled and no new rails have yet been laid.
Rail vehicles
- 1 steam locomotive Gy
- 1 diesel locomotive probably of the SŽD class ТУ4
- 2 open passenger cars from converted Pafawag cars
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dmitri Sutjagin: Children's Railways of the former USSR - Past and Present: Rustavi (English).
- ↑ a b c d e f Дмитрий Сутягин: Детские железные дороги СССР - История и современность: Хашури (Russian, Dmitri Sutjagin - past . Retrieved May 5, 2018
- ↑ Дмитрий Сутягин: Детские железные дороги СССР - История и современность: Фотогалерея Руставской ДЖД (Russian, Dmitry Sutyagin: Child railways of the former USSR - Past and Present: Photo gallery of the Children's Railway Rustavi ). Retrieved May 5, 2018
- ↑ Дмитрий Сутягин: Детские железные дороги СССР - История и современность: Алчевск (Коммунарск) (Russian, Dmitri Sutyagin: Child railways of the former USSR - past and present Alchevsk (Kommunarsk) ). Retrieved May 5, 2018
Coordinates: 41 ° 33 ′ 6 ″ N , 44 ° 59 ′ 48 ″ E